Waiting in the Wings

A selection of recently processed images yet to be moved in to the Processed Images Catalog.

I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable weekend (long weekend for some)! If the sky stays clear, we might try to make it out for some national park astro photography.

This post is likely to be the inaugural post of a series not necessarily focused on anything specific, just a sneak peek into some images that I have taken, and have sat in my “to be processed” catalog for some time and need to be moved to my Processed Images Catalog (see the post about my love hate relationship with my Lightroom catalog for more details) before being grouped and organized into more formal posts. So you will likely see these images again as part of a more structured and specific post or as part of a collection for any paid subscribers.

Hope you enjoy!

The patterns nature makes in wood has always been a source of fascination for me and macro photography allows me to use those patterns to present a subject that appears completely foreign to the viewer.

This is a rock formation found in Rocky Mountain National Park. Not sure the geology of its creation, but found it to be very interesting and photogenic, not looking like rock at all, but more like something out of “The Last of Us” or something!

I never really cared for flowers as a kid, teen, or even in my twenties, but once I started taking pictures of them, they have become a bit of an obsession, so many amazing structures and patterns to photograph!

To go along with the flowers, water drops on flowers is always a special treat. Took me until about 5 years ago to realize I can bring a spray bottle of water on my walks and get this effect pretty much on demand…

Another shot of water drops on the flowers in my back yard. These seem to only be good for photos for a day or two each year, then their fragile structure starts to wilt, but when they are on, they are gorgeous!

Violet flowers always stand out to me, pretty sure that is a feature of natural selection and they stand out to most everyone, but the deep rich color of these against a damp green or brown forest floor always makes for some amazing photos.

Drops on a leaf on the sidewalk during a morning walk. Sometimes my younger photographer surfaces and I get caught up in the parts that I think are beautiful and forget to check the composition of the shot…. A simple tweak to the position of the camera would have saved this image by shifting that drop in the center off to the side, or pull back a bit and allow the drop to be in focus… Oh well, next time!

This frosty morning walk shot is straight off the camera, unprocessed save for a crop adjustment. I will likely tweak a few things before it is finalized, but it is pretty perfect just as it is.

Let me know if you like this format of post and if you would like to see more of them, maybe as a once a month series.

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Thanks,

Brian